Andy Greene of Rolling Stone reports:
Aerosmith started a tour in Bulgaria last week that will take them throughout Europe and North America over the next four months, but don’t expect to hear another new album anytime soon. “Our contract to Sony is fulfilled and we’re free agents right now,” guitarist Joe Perry tells Rolling Stone. “We’re trying to figure out what that means. I don’t even know if making new albums makes sense anymore. Maybe we’ll just release an EP every six months. I don’t know what the future looks like.”
Part of the group’s reluctance to commit to a new album comes from the tepid response to their 2012 LP Music From Another Dimension!, which was their first collection of original songs in over a decade. It debuted at #5 on the charts before disappearing without a trace. None of the four singles even scraped the Billboard Hot 100. “I’m obviously disappointed it didn’t work out the way it was supposed to,” says Perry. “But on the other hand, once a record is out, it’s out forever. Maybe in two years someone might hear a song off it and go, ‘What was that song? It should have been on the radio.’ And it might hit a wave again.”
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That EP thing is a good idea.
This band is horrible. I saw them live with Cheap Trick few years ago in KC. Weak. Very weak
Good. Making albums full of ballads, duets with country musicians, outside songwriters and overpowering keyboards is crap! Aerosmith needs to go back doing drugs in order to make a kick-ass rock ‘n roll album.
“Music from Another Dimension” was as big a letdown as ” Draw the Line” back in the day. The whole thing was a tapioca misfire. Was the music really from “another dimension”? No….and if yes…what dimension is that, Joe and Steve? Never thought about that? Almost as vapid an album title as…..”Just Push Play”. I would rather cue up Sofia Coppola’s 8 track solo outing in 1979 called ” Red Lice Regrets”
than listen to “Legendary Child”. It gives the word “excrement” a bad name. I hear Cheetah Chrome is forming a band with Johnny Thunder’s former dealer and G.G. Allin’s daughter Rokoe Slupps. See you all at the Been There Club in Solvang.
The last great Aerosmith related album was “Let The Music Do the Talking” in 1980. The Geffen years was just MTV-driven product. Everything since 1997 has been desperate. It’s been over for a long time.
The last slab of sack they laid down was “done w/ mirrors.”. Why they act like that album never happened is a joke. “Permanent vacation” & “pump” had some great moments as did “get a grip” & “nine lives,” but they lost the plot altogether after that. It’s all about joe perry’s guitar then steven’s funk…if the ballsy/riffy hook ain’t there, it’s a bunch of trash. They still crush live though.
James Perkins
Houston, Texas
Music From Another Dimension was a terrible, TERRIBLE album, but that’s why I’m hoping it’s not their last. I’d hate to see them go out like that. They need to forget every impulse they have to be “commercial” and just make another ROCK album like they used to, with no more than ONE ballad on it, a good one like their 70s ones (Seasons Of Wither, You See Me Crying, Home Tonight, etc.). I think they’ve still got it in ’em to give us another Rocks if they try. Just stay away from the pop garbage once and for all.
It was not on par with Rocks but then it isn’t ’76. I honestly like about half of the album very much. And considering it had 15 songs not a bad ratio. Street Jesus, Out Go The Lights, Beautiful, Oh Yeah, and others liked very much
also loved Legendary Child, kick ass song!
Personally, Eddie, I felt the rock songs on the album were just so-so (Lover Alot being the best of the bunch, in my opinion), and they certainly didn’t make up for all the weak tracks, many of which I genuinely hated (especially that Carrie Underwood duet). I’m not picking on the band, though. I just think this album was a misstep. As I said, I think they could still make a great balls-out rock’n’roll album if they tried.
I enjoyed this album. It’s never going to be like the 70’s. No more Get Your Wings or Rocks, but as a modern Aerosmith album it’s pretty good. The songs that rock are top notch, but yes maybe less ballads would work.
Eddie,
I love Aerosmith, but was very dissatisfied with Dimension. It was missing something for me. The two songs from the Devils Got A New Disguise hits album were great so this really caught me off guard. I hope they do another full length album though. They’ve done it before–they can do it again!
Good news last. CD was pretty bad
It’s a shame their songwriting is so flat these days because Tyler is one of the few guys from the old guard who still has strength enough in his voice to deliver…just need the songs. Also, and ironically, considering their Run DMC collaboration, I think Aerosmith’s cross-generational appeal is now null; their sound is just too…jazzy or something.